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An Efficient Vehicle Routing Heuristic for Various and Unsymmetric Forward and Backward Vehicle Moving Speed

왕복비대칭 가변이동속도에서의 효율적 배송차량경로 탐색해법 연구

  • Moon, Geeju (Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Dong-A University) ;
  • Park, Sungmee (Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Dong-A University)
  • 문기주 (동아대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 박성미 (동아대학교 산업경영공학과)
  • Received : 2013.08.14
  • Accepted : 2013.09.05
  • Published : 2013.09.30
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Abstract

An efficient vehicle routing heuristic for different vehicle moving times for forward and backward between two points is studied in this research. Symmetric distance or moving times are assumed to move back and forth between two points in general, but it is not true in reality. Also, various moving speeds along time zones are considered such as the moving time differences between rush hours or not busy daytimes. To solve this type of extremely complicated combinatorial optimization problems, delivery zones are specified and delivery orders are determined for promising results on the first stage. Then delivery orders in each zone are determined to be connected with other zones for a tentative complete delivery route. Improvement steps are followed to get an effective delivery route for unsymmetric-time-varing vehicle moving speed problems. Performance evaluations are done to show the effectiveness of the suggested heuristic using computer programs specially designed and developed using C++.

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